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Dennise

#12,226 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dennise has been given to 3,571 babies in the U.S. since 1935. In 2025 it ranked #12,226 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 78 recorded.

Babies named Dennise, 2025

1 in 474,000

Dennise over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dennise: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dennise means

Dennise is a given name.

The naming story behind Dennise

Wikidata records Dennise as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q130287427, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,488 girls were recorded with the name Dennise between 1935 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 78 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,320 in 1952.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,395 in 2020 to #12,226 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,575 in 2015 to #12,226 in 2025.

In the United States, 83 boys were recorded with the name Dennise between 1955 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1974; its best national rank was #3,382 in 1974.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Dennise?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,226
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dennise sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dennise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dennises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dennise was born before 1985 — so the typical Dennise is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,332
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (644).

Is Dennise rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−4,897
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,831
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,651
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.0%
Peak was 2001 (78)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,320
1952

Spellings of Dennise

Dennise is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 64.3% against Dennise's 0.60%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dennise is used

Across 1910–2025, Dennise was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 46,618 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 25,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dennise has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dennise around the world

Where Dennise ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Scotland
    1974–1974
    #444
    in 1974
  • South Australia
    1945–1984
    #661
    in 1984

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dennise by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,226
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,831
Best rank ever
#1,320
1952
Peak year
2001
78 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,488
Count in 2025
7

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,382
1974
Peak year
1974
10 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
83
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dennise

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Dennise

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dennise, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dennise

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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